Senior Manager Payroll Processing

Dufry Careers

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager of Payroll is to manage day-to-day hourly and salary payroll processing for a broadly dispersed, high turn-over, dynamic organization with over 30,000 weekly and bi-weekly paid employees. This position ensures that payroll procedures and target dates are executed in an accurate, compliant, and timely manner.

Requirements

The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 6 years
In a leadership role: Requires 2 years of experience supervising a team of professionals engaged in executing payroll programs
In a technical role: Requires 6-8 years of payroll management experience engaged in developing and delivering payroll programs
A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 3 of the 6-year requirement
In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience
Knowledge of US payroll including federal, state, local, and tax regulations required; wage and hour compliance knowledge required
Demonstrated experience processing automated payrolls, with specific experience processing payroll for a company with over 10,000 employees
Exceptional attention to detail with demonstrated ability to conduct thorough quality control reviews, identify discrepancies, and ensure accuracy in high-volume payroll processing environment
Strong analytical and audit skills with ability to peer review payroll work, validate calculations, and maintain accuracy standards across all payroll outputs
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of payroll planning and to advance the organization’s goals
Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, stakeholders, the employee population and individual circumstances
Demonstrated history of creating and maintaining positive work environments through coaching, developing, and leading teams to achieve common goals

Nice To Haves

FPC or CPP certification strongly desired
Knowledge of Canadian payroll federal and provincial laws and regulations strongly preferred
Training that leads to understanding of managing payroll with tipped employee base
Knowledge of ADP, Dayforce (Ceridian), and SuccessFactors HCM preferred
Preferred experience with payroll systems implementation and transformation

Responsibilities

Manages the Payroll team in preparation and processing of the hourly and salaried payrolls in the US & Canada, while coordinating the workflow through the department up through preparation and distribution of paychecks, tax filings and payments, deductions, and garnishments
Conducts rigorous peer review and quality assurance of all payroll processing work to ensure accuracy and compliance; identifies and corrects errors before final processing
Leads and develops a knowledgeable payroll team to work effectively, while ensuring confidentiality, accuracy, effective controls, and timeliness for payroll related documentation
Develops internal procedures and controls to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate audit controls
Monitors and evaluates payroll system updates, with particular focus on system testing to ensure accurate and timely processing
Maintains payroll data (earnings and deduction codes) and tax data (rates and jurisdictions) in PeopleSoft
Serves as the Payroll subject matter expert and in the PeopleSoft HCM, including entering environment change requests and performing timely validation of test results prior to changes being put into production
Sets guidelines for Payroll team, determines payroll schedule, timelines/deadlines for HR and managers to provide information to payroll for processing; maintain continuous level of engagement between team, plant HR resources and PeopleSoft HRIS
Aids the General Accounting function in reconciliation of payroll bank and general ledger accounts
Participate in company’s future transitions of PeopleSoft to SuccessFactors HCM, payroll engine, and time and attendance system
Actively participates and lends technical expertise in the selection, establishment, implementation, and transition to a new Payroll Management system